In Tune - 27/01/2009

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Conductor Valery Gergiev talks to Sean about his forthcoming concerts of Stravinsky and Bartok with the London Symphony Orchestra as well as his residency with the Mariinsky Theatre at the Barbican Centre, London. And harpist Catrin Finch performs her new harp arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations in the studio. 17:02 MOSZKOWSKI Etincelles op.36 no.6 Stephen Hough (piano) HYPERION CDA 6704 Track 5 2’52 17:06 KHATCHATURIAN Spartacus (Adagio) Kirov Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor) PHILIPS 442 011 2 Track 3 8’45 17:15 LIVE BACH Goldberg Variations BWV.988 (Aria & Variation 1) Catrin Finch (harp) 4’58 17:25 LIVE BACH Goldberg Variations BWV.988 (Variation 25 “Black Pearl”) Catrin Finch (harp) 7’25 17:38 LIVE BACH Goldberg Variations BWV.988 (Variations 29-30) Catrin Finch (harp) 3’09 17:43 MOZART Exsultate, jubilate, K.165 Barbara Hendricks (soprano) Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) EMI 3 87894 2 CD 39 Track 14 15’50 18:03 BRAHMS Intermezzo in B flat minor op.117 no.2 Nicholas Angelich (piano) VIRGIN 379302 2 CD 2 Track 2 5’05 18:09 STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (Sacrificial Dance) Kirov Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor) PHILIPS 468 035 2 Track 14 4’55 18:18 TCHAIKOVSKY Queen of Spades (It’s close on midnight already…) Maria Gulegina (Liza) Kirov Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor) PHILIPS 4381412 CD 3 Tracks 4-5 5’43 18:29 MAHLER Symphony No.1 (2nd Movement) London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor) LSO0663 Track 2 8’14 18:38 SCHUMANN Marchenerzahlungen, op.132 Michel Portal (clarinet) Gérard Caussé (viola) Mikhail Rudy (piano) EMI CDC 7 54824 Tracks 6-9 15’21 18:54 BYRD Mass for Five Voices (Sanctus) The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood (director) ASV CD GAU 206 Track 15 5’10